Contour Quotes

20 quotes by 19 authors

Word meanings are like stretchy pullovers, whose outline contour is visible, but whose detailed shape varies with use. — Jean Aitchison
I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of… — Bernard Berenson
When night falls over Washington, D.C., memorials, public buildings, and broad avenues become ethereal shapes in soft light and shadow. Floodlights, piercing the darkness, etch… — Volkmar Wentzel
Lake George is without comparison, the most beautiful water I ever saw; formed by a contour of mountains into a basin... finely interspersed with islands,… — Thomas Jefferson
Believe in the holy contour of life. — Jack Kerouac
As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a… — Gianfranco Ferre
I am the form and I am the hollow, the thrust and the contour — Barbara Hepworth
Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat women's bodies as aesthetic objects without… — Germaine Greer
The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows. The character and contour of a terrain may offer opportunities for agriculture, mining, or trade, but… — Ariel Durant
The contour should come last, only a very experienced eye can place it rightly. — Eugene Delacroix
Some individuals may perceive their losing fight with gravity as a sharp pain in their back, others as the unflattering contour of their body, others… — Ida Rolf
The configuration of the ocean-floor is of great interest to seismologists studying the movements of the Earth's crust. Oceanographers are also able to explain certain… — Paul J. H. Schoemaker
The name Alaska is probably an abbreviation of Unalaska, derived from the original Aleut word agunalaksh, which means "the shores where the sea breaks its… — Corey Ford
These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination. — Democritus
The contour eludes me. — Paul Cezanne
Take hold of objects by their centres, not by their lines of contour... The contour accentuated uniformly and beyond proportion, destroys plasticity, bringing forward those… — Eugene Delacroix
When you a darker brunette and have pale skin like I do, it can wash you out a bit, so learning to contour is really… — Olivia Wilde
Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its… — Freya Stark
he could transform the barest incident into a thing of curve and contour. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
He's at ease, his body sculpted to the music, his shoulder searching the other shoulder, his right toe knowing the left knee, the height, the… — Colum McCann

Who Wrote These Contour Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 20 Contour Quotes as follows: